It’s Oxymoron Day again! And while sitting together to choose the most creative proposals for oxymorons among your submissions, we randomly bumped into interesting facts about group dynamics. Some of them were surprising, some just funny. Therefore in addition to the most favored word pairs: ten facts about teamwork – not only for engineers.

Everyone knows that teamwork is important for almost every job. But it is not always easy to carry out in practice. Despite this fact, the team meeting for choosing the best oxymorons was amusing and entertaining. Here are our favorites:

The article is referring to the book "Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations" written by Rich Karlgaard and Michael Shawn Malone. Based on scientific findings, they tried to explain in which cases teamwork can be considered effective and how to put together successful teams.

10 Facts about effective teamwork

The perfect team size: less is moreA team with five to nine persons achieves the best outcome. Additional participants reduce efficiency.

Healthy tensions make teams betterControversial opinions often lead to better results.

Conflicts are beneficialObjective discussions to deal with conflicts contribute to a positive outcome.

Hormone oxytocin within good teamsIf team members are getting along with each other well, the ‘feel-good-hormone’ oxytocin is released which in turn leads to a stronger bond.

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